"Today, many IT departments in the HPC industry are feeling the rising pressure and the need for more computing performance while building a scalable, environmentally friendly infrastructure that lowers total cost of ownership," said John Lee, vice president of Advanced Technology Solutions at Appro. "Appro's high-performance server solutions based on the AMD Opteron processor address our customers' demands by combining the latest green technologies with outstanding price/performance and engineering expertise to improve IT performance while reducing energy bills and floor space in the data center."

Based on AMD's Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor, the GreenBlade solution doubles the density of a 1U server. It supports up to 10 dual-processor server blades with up to 80 processing cores, offering a variety of blade configuration options. GreenBlade features up to 64GB of memory and 1TB of storage per compute blade and up to four 1625W high-efficiency power supplies per system. Because of its high-efficiency power supplies and energy-efficient modular architecture, the GreenBlade solution consumes less power than 1U servers, reducing energy bills.

GreenBlade is part of Appro's Go-Green initiative to address HPC environmental challenges. Also as part of that initiative, Appro will release single and dual storage blades sometime in second quarter 2009.